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VERNONIA EAGLE
Advertising Rates -25cts per Inch,
single column measure, each weak.
We collect tor advertising the first
of every month.
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IT HELI’S THE BOYS
indicate that the American people, instead of growing
more careful and working harder to prevent fires are w E read recently where the director
music in the
actually growing more careless.
Oakland, California schools said that '
you’ll teach
Here is something every Vernonia home-owner would
PAUL S. RJBINSON.
a
boy
to
blow
a
horn-he
won
’
t
be
so
apt
t
low
a safe.”
do well to study over awhile. The monev that went un
E ditor and O wner .
^°^n-
in smoke in this country last year would have paid off And he also deplored the fact that the
Issued Every Friday.
more than half the interest on the national debt. It would of the country are fast drifting away from the'“olcTlllWK
The Original Home Paper, Standing
have built hundreds of modem schools, hundreds of that a brass band was a fine asset. We feel sure Vernonia
$2.00 Per Year.
for Progress, Fair Play, Home Pat
ronage, Law Enforcement, Good churches and private buildings and would have built citizens will agree with him there. Nothing gives our
Entered ss second-class matter August Schools and The Homo Beautiful. thousands of good- substantial homes.
smaller towns more good advertising in territory surr
4, 1922, at the post office at Ver
The
report
declares
that
a
vast
part
of
this
great
loss
ounding them than a well-organized- well-conducted
nonia, Oregon, under the Act
All Accounts Must Be Settled ia Full could have been prevented, and that even where there brass band, and nothing aids more in employing the leis
of March 3. 1879.
Every 30 Days
are few fires actual money can be saved by those who ure time of our young men than being members of such
are cautious, because fire insurance rates are lowest an orzanization. We’re sorry to see the radio and the
where fires are fewest and where the general public phonograph replacing this fine old institution, for while
shows a desire to prevent them. The loss last year was they afford much pleasure they can never bring the thrill
sufficient to have given every citizen of the United States that comes from music rendered by “home town boys”
the sum of five dollars. In many instances the property and they can never give the town the fine reputation for
LAGS were at half mast this week—W. J. Bryan is destroyed can never be replaced, and that is the saddest progressiveness that the home-town band can give.
dead. The idol of millions has made his last great feature of it.
speech. The great advocate r of World Peace has gone to It is bad enough for a nation to lose $548,000,000
JRNONIA has one of the best ball teams of any town
his reward where he will enjoy everlasting Peace. No thorugh
_'i any resource. But it is little short of criminal
her size in the country and for the splendid games
name has been sp< k. n by American tongues as often or for it to lose almost that much through carelessness.
they
are putting up, the citizens of Vernonia are not giv
with deeper legard than the name of W. J. Bryan. Mr.
ing them the support they deserve.
Bryan was a tive American in every sence of the word.
T
O
my
mind
there
are
more
reasons
why
the
business
A Good Man v. a. die could be said of any man.
ANDIDATES are bobbing up fast for U. S. Senator
He was a rich man- a politician and a good man—a com interests of a town should support its home paper than
and for Governor. Ike Paterson for Governor is the
bination seldom linked toe,ether in these modern days. any other class of people.
favorite
at this writing.
The greatest reason why they should support its local
Bryan was toog ood to be a present day politician and
rich man. He was deeply religious and followed his own paper is because of the large dividends it pays in the
teachings, in ;ns last Bays he was fighting for what was form of advertising.
right and put ail his strength in the battle; even giving
In this day of our modern age it is useless to stress
his life for a just cat -e. Bryan has done a good work, he the great necessity of advertising, for it has proved its
CRAWFORD MOTOR CO.
has fought the battle, he has been called to his reward. worth to the most skeptical. Any sane business man
LINCOLN—FORD—FORDSON
The world mourns.
knows that without advertising the business world would
indeed be greatly handicapped.
You can now buy your Ford on the 18 months
There are today many business men who undeistand
payment plan
NOT SO BAD
that advertising is a great asset to the business interests
Payments as low as $21.88 a month
o—o—o
E’VE heard quite a few Vernonia people declare that in general, but who fail to stop and think how greatly
Gasoline, Oil, Storage, Tires and Accessories
teaching has no ¡uture. A few days ago when Gler.n they could increase their own volume of business if only
o—o—o
Frank, still in his thirties, was engaged as president they
of would advertise extensively through the channels
Ambulance for Towing
Wisconsin University at a sally of $18,000 a year we of their own local paper.
Battery Service
Phone 612
suppose thehe same people used this to bolster up theii
The time has come when the business man is begin
argument. Bi . b<. fore doing so they should get all of the ning to realize more and more the worth and help his
A FFO°R D
A
FORD
facts, and facts will shoxi that Glenn Frank was not a paper is to him in the form of advertising.
YOU
CAN
teacher but a maga: ine editor when he got the job. He
The great majority of our laboring class of people do
did 1 teach 11 at one
on- 111
’ tun
tune, \ befo.e entering - the - literary
field,
not
have the time to go around our town and find the
- present
and would probul y nevei . ave ascended to - his
best talent, skill and bargains when they require the ser
place unless he uad <1 >116 ><i. So there is room for a.gu- vices of any of our .various business interests.
ment both ways in thi 5 CR
whether he could have se-
Instead of that they depend generally upon the ad
cured the $18,000 a year /. b without at one time been vertising columns of their local paper to serve them with
a teacher, or w ,’hether he (¡nly secured it because he was the information as to where they can best be served.
no longer a teac '•ler In the meantime teachers will
go Take it wherever you may you will always find that the
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right ahead drs a \ a. sala es that are too small- and some varied business interests that advertise the most exten
magazine editors will continue to be getting far more sively are the ones who are the most successful.
than they are worth.
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By the help of the business interests of a town co-op
erating with its local paper, it thus enaflfes the editor and
VERY GOOD WORK
INDICATIONS POINT TO STILL
his staff to devote a great deal more of their time to mak
ing the paper a larger and much better publication.
ANOTHER BOOST
HEN Uncle S. m cauy’it and fined 50 furniture
Wherever
you
find
the
various business organizations
manutac i e<s from 81000 to $5000 each a few of a town supporting and co-operating with its paper
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weeks ago lie d-d an unusually good job. The only sad
that is full of good live news, and a great asses to any
feature
rill pay up and then pass it, town and community .
A serious shortage of rubber on the world’s
on to tiu? <u‘r.itui e-bu\ing pupblic, and the consumer!
consumer
market
and the impossibility of quiek in
When the business interests ofa town have foresight
will have t
1 ' ■ 'ter all. But it proves what everyone
crease
in
rubber production has forced
enough to co-operate and support its local paper, it is
has felt for 1
,
that is that furniture makers doing
tire
makers
to set new and higher prices
a great work in helping to uplift and upbuild its
have been mor g the r; in st ...
profiteers since wartime.
______ town and
for
the
fourth
time this year.
community that can be done in no other way.
It also serv
notice < n other manufacturers that the A town’s spirit
And
another
increase
is now being predic
of pride and progress is reflected in the
government ; not asleep on thé jôb, and that the day
ted.
of highway 1 bbcrv i ; ua sing. Sucn activity is to be com- pages of its own paper. ,
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Its influence counts far more outside the home town
mended, but t can i; made 'till more _ certain
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and effect- than
most of us realize. Whenever an out-of-town
ive if the c< A ,¡1 ., uw a little better co-operation by person the
BETTER ACT NOW!
chances
get copy of a papr that is supported
hanging on
i,
«niiary sentences along with the by its business to
interests,
it
creates
a
favorable
impres
fines. The average ]. proiiteer
'
’
‘ ’t care for a fine
......... for
It is to your advantage to buy tires now,
doesn
upon that person. He immediately puts that town
he can soon r
trood sion
■k. But if he knows he has a good
even
though you may not need them until
as being a good live business place, and one that
chance of
t ; t
,
awhile he is pretty apt to down
later. We will do the square thing by you
change his tactic.' u 1 go 1 ack to honest methods of has the spirit of progress and success.
and sell you only tires that give more miles
A paper like that thus attracts many new and desir
a^itai ¿earning money.
able citizens to that town that could not easily be at
per dollar.
tracted in any other way.
BULB TALK
Wherever you find the people of a town, and especi
ally the business interests, backing and co-operating with
HE New«-T;m<-< doe« rot « iv and has not said that bulb the editor of its paper- you will find a town in which all
growing ¡- a table pg- ¡cultural pursuit in which there classes of people are directly benefited.—Rupert Ball.
an \
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, h iwever. iliat in the opinion
of bulb author- it
:d By virtue of the figures any man
W. W. Laughlin says we are a
< an put or paper, ti.e proposed commercial production “Duce of a fellow because we
GORDON FURNITURE CO.
of narcissus iiuliis in w* stein Washington county looks don’t notify him when his “year is]
WF. SELL FOR LESS
like a dignified and profitable possibility.
up,’’ We didn’t know it, but appre
Anything In
Reference to any A/i-t-' magazine or any garden ciate the year’s advance for the
magazine v ill op n Tie leader’s eyes to the market for Eagle just the seme. Thanks, Mr.
narcissus bull
1 < supply of millions heretofore im Laughlin.
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ported each year t om Holland will be eliminated after
A building started in Peril 5,000
this year. This supply must, eventually be made up in j ears ago has just been completel.
I have it, and
the United States.
It must have been a government
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Certainly
Have
Prices
to Please, New Line Just Unpacked
Now comes a man who offered to buy all the bulbs job.
Washington county fanners can raise if- after a fair trial
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they find for any ;• son whatever that they do not want Ever notice that a cent never
Want a little Refrigator; a side board; Rockers, Odd Chairs, Beds, or a com
to continue,.
looks bigger than when it is a ided
plete suit for any room?
Narcissus bub ; multiply five times between planting to the price of gasoline.
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FLOOR COVERINGS
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and harvest. Th • tr-al investment is about $55. The nor
À
mal harvest will i< Id five times that sum at the present
40 ACRE FARM FOR SALE
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I am the Specialty Man in this line
market pi ice, oi ¿«5. And the entire harvest will be tak
and Extra Special
I will sell my 40 acre farm nt an
en off the hands of any grower who does not wish to attractive
price for a quick deal,
STOVES AND RANGES
continue the busim . A leaonable man could not well Lies one and
one-half mile from
NEW
AND SECOND HAND
ask for a better opj •»rtunity nor more of a guarantee Vernonia, just beyond the city
against loss.—Forert Grove News-Times.
reservoir. A 7 room good house, two
When you have Used Furniture For Sale, Call us----- We can handle it
good wells, place all fenced,
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We can Outfit you on Large or Small Scale
acres in hay crop, good garden,
OUR FIRE LOSSES
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family orchard. A place we want to
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BUY TIRES NOW!
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VERNONIA BRAZING & MACHINE WORKS
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FURNITURE
show you. Am offering place for
HE National Board of Underwriters has just sent out) $3000. Give good ter^s.
John
,
50-2t
report of fires i 1 the U. S. for the year 1924, and it Hall.
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shows a total loss of $518,000,000, or at the rate uf$1.044
If
you
have anything to a«U or
a minute. This breaks all previous records, and would want anything.
Adverti-ta in the Eagle
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WE SELL FOR LESS
Also a complete line of Millinery Goods—Hand Made Hats
GORDON FURNITURE COMPANY—WEST OF BANK